International Ocean Institute Training Programme

Sixty-first session
Agenda item 71 (b)
06-50073
United Nations A/RES/61/105
General Assembly
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/61/L.38 and Add.1)]
61/105. Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995
Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of
10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and
Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly
Migratory Fish Stocks, and related instruments
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolutions 46/215 of 20 December 1991, 49/116 and 49/118 of
19 December 1994, 50/25 of 5 December 1995 and 57/142 of 12 December 2002, as
well as other resolutions on large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing, unauthorized
fishing in zones of national jurisdiction and on the high seas, fisheries by-catch and
discards, and other developments, its resolutions 56/13 of 28 November 2001 and
57/143 of 12 December 2002 on the Agreement for the Implementation of the
Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December
1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and
Highly Migratory Fish Stocks (“the Agreement”), 1 and its resolutions 58/14 of
24 November 2003, 59/25 of 17 November 2004 and 60/31 of 29 November 2005
on sustainable fisheries, including through the Agreement and related instruments,
Recalling the relevant provisions of the United Nations Convention on the
Law of the Sea (“the Convention”), 2 and bearing in mind the relationship between
the Convention and the Agreement,
Recognizing that, in accordance with the Convention, the Agreement sets forth
provisions concerning the conservation and management of straddling fish stocks
and highly migratory fish stocks, including provisions on compliance and
enforcement by the flag State and subregional and regional cooperation in
enforcement, binding dispute settlement and the rights and obligations of States in
authorizing the use of vessels flying their flags for fishing on the high seas, and
specific provisions to address the requirements of developing States in relation to
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2167, No. 37924.
2 Ibid., vol. 1833, No. 31363.
Distr.: General
6 March 2007